SUREedge Migrator Installation Guide for Amazon AWS

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1 SUREedge Migrator Installation Guide for Amazon AWS Contents 1. Introduction SUREedge Migrator Deployment Scenarios Installation Overview Obtaining Software and Documentation Obtaining SUREedge Software and Tools Obtaining Documentation Pre-requisites Installing SUREedge Migrator Deploying SUREedge Migrator Configuring SUREedge Migrator Configuring the SUREedge Migrator MC Obtaining Licenses Next Steps Contacting Support Appendix: Creating Private AMIs from Shared AMIs

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3 1. Introduction Welcome to SUREedge Migrator! SUREedge Migrator is a proven enterprise-class software appliance for Application Mobility, significantly simplifying and improving the process of moving enterprise applications and systems across disparate environments. With a multi-tier application migration planner, agentless architecture, WAN throttling, application awareness and world class encryption and deduplication capabilities, SUREedge Migrator is easy to deploy, highly scalable and hardware- and hypervisor-agnostic. With the ability to capture and migrate applications, data and servers between disparate virtualization environments, data centers and public, private and hybrid clouds, SUREedge Migrator is the most complete and easy-to-use solution available in the market. 1.1 SUREedge Migrator Deployment Scenarios SUREedge Migrator can be deployed in various configurations to meet the needs of the situation: * A single instance of SUREedge Migrator can be deployed to move systems, applications and data off of physical systems into virtualization environments, between different virtualization environments or onto new storage devices. This process is referred to as on-boarding. * A pair of SUREedge Migrator instances can be used to move systems, applications and data between compute environments - from one data center to another, from physical systems into private or public clouds, across compute clouds and other virtualization environments, or any computationally "distant" environments. This process is referred to as migration. The main difference between migration and on-boarding scenarios is the number of SUREedge Instances that are needed: on-boarding requires installing one SUREedge Migrator instance in the target virtualization environment, whereas migration requires two - one at the source site where the systems to be migrated reside, and one at the target site where they will live after the migration. Note that the same SUREedge Migrator software is installed and same installation procedures are followed for both the source and target instances; the role of a given instance (target or source) is determined solely by its configuration. Therefore these installation instructions apply to both source and target site installs. 3

4 1.2 Installation Overview To set up an environment for on-boarding or migration you should first determine the location(s) where SUREedge Migrator should be installed. You can then: Obtain the required documentation and software for the environment(s) you have identified. You should have an Install Guide (this document) for each environment and, if required, the software packages for installing SUREedge Migrator in those environment(s). Perform the installation of SUREedge Migrator software as instructed using the Installation Guide. License and configure SUREedge Migrator as appropriate for each environment, as described in the Installation Guide and the User Guide. This Installation Guide covers the steps necessary for installing SUREedge Migrator in an Amazon AWS environment. The following sections will take you through the steps to obtain installation materials and to install, license and configure SUREedge Migrator to run in an Amazon AWS environment. You can then use the User Guide to configure and start using SUREedge Migrator for on-boarding or migration. 4

5 2. Obtaining Software and Documentation SUREedge Migrator installers, tools and documentation are all available online for download. It s not necessary to download any files to install SUREedge Migrator in AWS; all installation binaries are available within AWS already. However, if you need any additional tools or documentation the following sections detail how to obtain them. 2.1 Obtaining SUREedge Software and Tools This section contains the instructions for downloading SUREedge Migrator installer and some accompanying tools that may be of use. SUREedge Migrator software can be obtained via secure FTP (SFTP). Please use an SFTP client (such as WinSCP - to download the SUREedge Migrator software installer and tools from the SFTP site. The examples in this section show the download process using WinSCP. 1. Please use the following information to connect to the SFTP host: IP Address: Port: 995 Username: sure01 Password: Please write to support@surelinesystems.com for the password 5

6 2. Click "Yes" to accept the server fingerprint and continue to log in. 6

7 3. Open the folder named "Download." 4. The Download folder contains the following subfolders: SUREedge Installation Package contains SUREedge Installer binaries. Tools contains SUREedge Pre-Requisite tools, some useful Third Part Apps and Deployment scripts for various cloud platforms. 7

8 a. SUREedge Installation Package: This folder contains installation binaries for various platforms. Please note - For AWS Platform SUREedge Migrator is installed via proxy images and deployment scripts. Therefore no installation binaries need to be downloaded. Tools: The Tools folder contains tools useful for the installation and operation of SUREedge Migrator. It contains three sub-folders: Client_Pre_requisite_tool, Third Party Apps and Cloud Scripts 8

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10 The Client_Pre_requisite_tool directory contains binaries that could be useful in preparing Clients to be migrated. (Please see the SUREedge Migrator User Guide for information on using the pre-requisite tools). 10

11 The Third Party Apps directory contains programs that can help during the operation of SUREedge Migrator: Firefox: SUREedge Migrator is best viewed using the Firefox Browser; an executable for installing Firefox is provided in this folder. Notepad++ is a text viewer/editor that can be helpful for viewing log files or other text files. MobaXterm is a terminal program that can be used to make an SSH connection to the SUREedge Store virtual machine if necessary 11

12 Adobe Reader can be used to read the SUREedge Migrator documentation, which is provided as PDF files. The Cloud Scripts directory contains deployment scripts for various cloud platforms. For example, it contains scripts that automate the creation and management of resources for SUREedge Migrator deployments on AWS. 12

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14 The AWS folder contains AWSDeploymentScripts460.zip, which contains deployment scripts. Please download this file as it will be used during the deployment process. 14

15 2.2 Obtaining Documentation SUREedge Migrator documentation is available for download as PDF files from the Sureline Systems website. To get access to SUREedge Migrator documentation, navigate to this URL in your browser: You will need an account in order to log in and access the SUREedge Migrator documentation. If you are a new user, please register by filling in the form and clicking Register. If you are already a registered user, please click the Sign in! button and provide your credentials to access the download area. After successfully signing in you will have access to the download area: 15

16 3. Pre-requisites To deploy SUREedge Migrator in AWS you will need access to Sureline AMIs, which will be shared with you upon request. To request access to the AMIs, you need to provide your AWS account ID number. You can find your account ID number by logging into the AWS Management Console and clicking Support in the navigation bar in the upperright corner. Next select Support Center from the pulldown menu. Your current account ID will appear below the Support menu: Please contact SUREedge Support at support@surelinesystems.com and send your AWS account ID number to request access to the SUREedge Migrator AMIs. When the AMIs are accessible you should receive a response indicating you can access these AMIs from Sureline s account: 16

17 sureedge-linux-minimal sureedge-linux-proxy-471 sureedge-windows-proxy-471 To confirm you have access to these AMIs: Open the Amazon EC2 console at In the navigation pane, choose AMIs. In the first filter, choose Private images. You should see the three AMIs that were shared with you in the resulting list. The images sureedge-linux-minimal sureedge-linux-proxy-471 and sureedge-windowsproxy-471 are pre-configured for use in deploying SUREedge Migrator. These images will be used by the deployment script you downloaded above which uses the AWS SDK powershell tool, so you will need a system on which the AWS SDK powershell tool has been installed. To Download AWS SDK powershell tool for windows machine visit The Powershell version needs to be 4.0 as shown below : 17

18 You will need to change the Windows PowerShell Script Execution Policy to Unrestricted Mode. Please refer to this article for details: 18

19 4. Installing SUREedge Migrator There are two steps to creating a SUREedge Migrator instance in Amazon web services: deploying the system images and configuring the newly installed instance. 4.1 Deploying SUREedge Migrator As detailed previously, SUREedge will be installed in the Amazon web services using a pre-configured proxy image. To install and configure SUREedge follow these steps: 1. Copy or download the file AWSDeploymentScripts471.zip to a system with the AWS SDK PowerShell tool installed, which will be used for the deployment process. Extract the contents of AWSDeploymentScripts471.zip. The extracted folder will contain three files as shown below: README.txt contains instructions for using deployment script. SUREedgeDeploymentForAWS.ps1 is the deployment script to be executed. 19

20 AWSToolsAndSDKForNet_sdk _ps _tk msi is the installer for AWS SDK platform required for this deployment.please run this installer to set up the AWS tools on the local machine. 2. To execute the script and deploy SUREedge Migrator, run the following command filling in the values as described below:.\sureedgedeploymentforaws.ps1 access_key <access_key> -secret_access_key <secret_access_key> -zone <zone_name> -data_disk_size <data_disk_size> -deployment_name <deployment_name> The values should be filled in as follows: <access_key>: This is a Unique Key Provided by AWS for your Account. <secret_access_key>: This is a Unique Key Provided by AWS for your Account. <zone>: The zone where you want SUREedge Migrator to be deployed. <data_disk_size>: The size, in gigabytes, of the storage to be allocated for storing the images of the systems to be migrated. <deployment_name>: The name you wish to give to your deployment, which will result in two VMs being created named <deployment_name>-sureedge-mc and <deployment_name>- SUREedge-Store For example, to deploy using AWS as a deployment name and a 256GB dedupe store in the zone useast-1a, the command would be:.\sureedgedeploymentforaws.ps1 -access_key ***** -secret_access_key ***** -zone us-east-1a -data_disk_size 256 -deployment_name AWS 20

21 Once the deployment process begins do not close the Powershell window. Deployment will take around minutes, During the installation you may see the prompt Store key in cache? Y/N as shown below. Please note - Do not click on or type in the Powershell window the script itself will answer the prompt. Please find the screenshots below: 21

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24 On Completion of Script you will see output similar to what is shown below. This indicates the deployment was successfully completed. Now login to AWS Console and verify that the instances for the SUREedge MC and SUREedge Store (named AWS-SUREedge-MC and AWS-SUREedge-Store in this example) are present, as shown in the image below: 24

25 4.2 Configuring SUREedge Migrator Once the virtual machine instances have been deployed in AWS, the SUREedge Migrator instance must be configured with the deployment information before capturing and transferring data and systems. 1. In the AWS console navigate to VM Instances. Click on each of the newly deployed instances ("SUREedgeAWS_Demo-SUREedge-MC" and "SUREedgeAWS_Demo-SUREedge-Store") and note their external and internal IP addresses: 25

26 4.2.1 Configuring the SUREedge Migrator MC To configure the SUREedge Migrator MC, you will need to open a browser window (Mozilla Firefox is recommended). Then follow these instructions: Connect to the SUREedge Migrator MC by putting its external IP address in the address bar. You will then be presented with the following login screen: 26

27 Log in with the following credentials: o o Username: administrator Password: Sure1234 This will display the main UI screen and dashboard: 27

28 Next click on "SUREedge-Store Network Configuration," which will bring up the following form: In the IP Address field, enter the Public IP address for the SUREedge Migrator Store system that you noted earlier. Fill in the credentials with the username "sureline" and the password "Sure1234. Click Submit to save the configuration. 28

29 Next click on Hypervisor Configuration, which will open following form: Fill this form as follows: From the Type dropdown. Select Amazon Cloud. In the Access Key and Secret Key fields, enter the Access Key and Secret Key of an Amazon EC2 user having rights to create and manipulate disks and instances (as described in IAM Permissions here, Click Submit to save these values. Next click on SUREedge-MC Network Configuration to bring up the following form: 29

30 Fill in this form as follows: IP Address: enter the Public IP address for the SUREedge Migrator MC system (the one you are currently logged into) that you instantiated and noted earlier. Username: Make sure the username field is Administrator. Password: Enter Sure1234. In addition, you have the option of assigning a name to the instance and setting its location. This is purely for informational purposes and is displayed on the login screen and at the top of the SUREedge Migrator UI. To assign an instance name, click on "SUREedge Appliance Name" and enter the desired appliance name: 30

31 To set the instance location string, click on "SUREedge Appliance Location" and provide a location string: 31

32 You have now completed the SUREedge Migrator installation. 32

33 5. Obtaining Licenses As mentioned earlier a license is not required to install SUREedge Migrator, though it will operate with reduced functionality until a license is supplied. In order to start the actual migration of systems you will need to supply a permanent license. For a permanent license, click on Request License in the upper right corner of the screen. A popup will appear with instructions and all the information required to request a license. Please send the Appliance Serial Number to support@surelinesystems.com or please call sales ( ) to request a license. A member from our team will provide a license key via . For detailed instructions on how to activate your license key, please see the SUREedge Migrator User Guide. 33

34 6. Next Steps Your system is now installed and ready to perform migration or on-boarding operations. Please refer to the SUREedge Migrator User Guide for more information about on-boarding and migrating applications and systems. Directions for obtaining the User Guide and other product documentation can be found in Section 2.2 Obtaining Documentation. 7. Contacting Support The Sureline Systems website ( provides a support page wherein you can submit your issues and a ticket will be automatically generated and the support team will get back to you. us: Alternatively, you can write an to support@surelinesystems.com with a detailed description of the issue. This will automatically create a support ticket, and a member of our customer support team will reach out to you soon after. Telephone Support: You can also contact us directly on this number if you wish to speak with a Sureline Systems Engineer directly. 34

35 Appendix: Creating Private AMIs from Shared AMIs In order to deploy and use SUREedge Migrator in Amazon EC2 you must have private copies of three AMIs available in the Availability Zone(s) where you wish the deployment(s) to occur. The following sections show how to create Private AMIs from the three AMIs shared with you. ********Creating a SUREedge-Linux-Proxy AMI To create the sureedge-linux-proxy AMI: Open the Amazon EC2 console at In the navigation pane, choose Images -> AMIs and locate the shared AMI named sureedge-linux-proxy under Private Images and click Launch. This will bring up the first page of the instance configuration wizard: 35

36 Keep the default values. You can skip to setting the instance name by clicking on 5. Tag Instance at the top of the screen to bring up the Step 5: Tag Instance page: Enter the name sureedge-linux-proxy. You can skip other settings and click on Review and Launch to bring up the review page: 36

37 Click Launch. When prompted for a key pair, select Proceed without a key pair, and select the acknowledgement check box. Then choose Launch Instances to create the instance named sureedge-linux-proxy. 37

38 This will create an instance named sureedge-linux-proxy. To create an AMI from the newly created instance: Choose Instances in the navigation pane. Select the instance named sureedge-linux-proxy, right-click to bring up the context menu and choose Image > Create Image: This will bring up the Create Image form: 38

39 Enter an Image name exactly as sureedge-linux-proxy. Click on Create Image. You will see a confirmation message: Close the confirmation dialog box. 39

40 This will create an AMI with name sureedge-linux-proxy in your AWS Account which will be visible under AMIs Owned by me. Once the sureedge-linux-proxy AMI is created successfully in your account, you can terminate the instance named sureedge-linux-proxy that you created from the shared AMI. Select the instance with the name sureedge-linux-proxy and right-click to choose Instance State > Terminate from the context menu. Then choose Yes, Terminate in the confirmation dialog. 40

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42 ********** Creating SUREedge-Windows-Proxy AMI To create the sureedge-windows-proxy AMI: Open the Amazon EC2 console at In the navigation pane, choose Images -> AMIs and locate the shared AMI named sureedge-windows-proxy under Private Images and click Launch. This will bring up the first page of the instance configuration wizard: 42

43 Keep the default values. You can skip to setting the instance name by clicking on 5. Tag Instance at the top of the screen to bring up the Step 5: Tag Instance page: Enter a name sureedge-windows-proxy. You can skip other settings and click on Review and Launch to bring up the review page: 43

44 Click Launch. When prompted for a key pair, select Proceed without a key pair, then select the acknowledgement check box. Choose Launch Instances to create the sureedge-windowsproxy instance. This will create an instance named sureedge-windows-proxy. 44

45 To create an AMI using newly created instance: Choose Instances in the navigation pane. Select the Instance named sureedge-windows-proxy, then right-click and choose Image > Create Image from the context menu. This will bring up the Create Image page: 45

46 Enter the Image name as sureedge-windows-proxy. Click on Create Image. You will see a confirmation message: Close the confirmation dialog box. 46

47 This will create an AMI with name sureedge-windows-proxy in your AWS Account which will be visible under AMIs Owned by me. Once sureedge-windows-proxy AMI is created successfully in your account, you can terminate instance with the name sureedge-windows-proxy. Select the Instance with the name sureedge-windows-proxy, right-click and choose Instance State > Terminate from the context menu. Choose Yes, Terminate in the confirmation dialog. 47

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49 ******** Creating SUREedge-Linux-Minimal AMI Open the Amazon EC2 console at In the navigation pane, choose Images -> AMIs and locate shared AMI named sureedgelinux-minimal under Private Images and click Launch. This will bring up the first page of the instance configuration wizard: 49

50 Keep the default values. You can skip to setting the instance name by clicking on 5. Tag Instance at the top of the screen to bring up the Step 5: Tag Instance page: 50

51 For the name, enter sureedge-linux-minimal. You can skip other settings and click on Review and Launch to bring up the review page: Click Launch. When prompted for a key pair select Proceed without a key pair, select the acknowledgement check box, and then choose Launch Instances to create an instance with the name sureedgelinux-minimal. 51

52 This will create an Instance named sureedge-linux-minimal. To create an AMI using newly created instance named sureedge-linux-minimal in the navigation pane, you will need to: Choose Instances in the navigation pane. Select the Instance named sureedge-linux-minimal, then right-click and choose Image > Create Image from the context menu. 52

53 This will bring up the Create Image page: Enter the Image name as shown above, sureedge-linux-minimal. Click on Create Image. 53

54 Close the confirmation dialog box. This will create an AMI with name sureedge-linux-minimal in your AWS Account which will be visible under AMIs Owned by me. 54

55 Once sureedge-linux-minimal AMI is created successfully you can terminate the instance named sureedge-linux-minimal that was created from the shared AMI: Select the Instance with the name sureedge-linux-minimal, right-click and choose Instance State > Terminate from the context menu. Then choose Yes, Terminate in the confirmation dialog. 55